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What are some of the frameworks you've seen? I've been looking for frameworks that allow client-side javascript routing to be reused on the server. So far I've

What are some of the frameworks you've seen? I've been looking for frameworks that allow client-side javascript routing to be reused on the server. So far I've found two, both using a combination of backbone.js and jsdom to render pages on the server: https://github.com/Morriz/backbone-everywhere https://github.com/Morriz/backbone-everywhere https://github.com/developmentseed/bones https://github.com/developmentseed/bones

jordow 15y ago
Rendering arbitrarily on either the client or server is hard. Other solutions that I saw forced the developer to have to think about it, so I developed FaxJs which allows the system to handle that complexity for you. https://github.com/jordow/FaxJs https://github.com/jordow/FaxJs The gist is that you just write standard declarative ui structures in pure javascript and the system disassembles the markup on the server, and reassembles it on the client with all the events still in tact. You wouldn't know all that is happening just by looking, though. ... var twoDivs = { className: 'outerDiv', onClick: this.outerDivClicked, innerDiv: { className: 'innerDiv', content: 'inner-most-div!' }.Div() }.Div(); Or you can just do it all on the client too, if that's your thing. You'll need to work to get this integrated into your routing technology as with any rendering system.
rev087 15y ago
I'm mostly on the same page as you, trying to somehow integrate Backbone on the server side. In the end, the mess I was creating became really unmaintainable and I left the project on hold.
skeletonjelly 15y ago
ASP.NET MVC does a really nice job. I have a pattern that detects whether the request is for JSON or HTML (via a GET or POST parameter) and return a user control (module or what have you) or the entire page respectively.
pilgrim689 15y ago
Try this combo: Express(server routing), Sammy(client routing), Jsdom, Jsviews(templates).

jordow 15y ago

Rendering arbitrarily on either the client or server is hard. Other solutions that I saw forced the developer to have to think about it, so I developed FaxJs which allows the system to handle that complexity for you. https://github.com/jordow/FaxJs https://github.com/jordow/FaxJs The gist is that you just write standard declarative ui structures in pure javascript and the system disassembles the markup on the server, and reassembles it on the client with all the events still in tact. You wouldn't know all that is happening just by looking, though. ... var twoDivs = { className: 'outerDiv', onClick: this.outerDivClicked, innerDiv: { className: 'innerDiv', content: 'inner-most-div!' }.Div() }.Div(); Or you can just do it all on the client too, if that's your thing. You'll need to work to get this integrated into your routing technology as with any rendering system.

rev087 15y ago

I'm mostly on the same page as you, trying to somehow integrate Backbone on the server side. In the end, the mess I was creating became really unmaintainable and I left the project on hold.

skeletonjelly 15y ago

ASP.NET MVC does a really nice job. I have a pattern that detects whether the request is for JSON or HTML (via a GET or POST parameter) and return a user control (module or what have you) or the entire page respectively.

pilgrim689 15y ago

Try this combo: Express(server routing), Sammy(client routing), Jsdom, Jsviews(templates).